BRAINE, John

Room at the Top

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Highly acclaimed first book made into a film. A little foxing to the front endpaper and pastedown. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 004319

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts First Book 20th Century British Literature Movie Fiction Literature: English

BRAINE, JOHN.

Room at the Top.

Harmondsworth. Penguin. 1975. Paperback. 234,(6) Seiten. Reprint. Good. ISBN 014001361.

Worpsweder AntiquariatProfessional seller

Book number: 787259

Catalogue: English Literature

Braine, John

Room at the Top

VGC/GC. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1958. First edition-9th impression. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, two small nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC, with Dj(very small tear on the edges of the Dj cover, some creases, nicks and foxing marks on the outer and inner edges of the Dj cover) in GC. Nice and clean pages with small foxing marks on the outer edges, a couple of small foxing marks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 256pp. Price un-clipped. Very Good/Good. ISBN: 9780413414106

Alpha 2 Omega BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 8652

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 9780413414106

Braine, John

Room At the Top (Hors Catalogue)

Random House UK 1990. 240 S. Taschenbuch Guter altersbedingter Zustand, ohne Namenseintrag Foto und Cover nicht identisch gut - gebraucht

buchgenie.de Sigrun WuerteleProfessional seller

Book number: BU184087

Catalogue: Englischsprachiges

BRAINE, JOHN

Room at the top

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1957, First Edition - Seventh impression. (ISBN: -) Cloth with dust jacket. entry on first free endpaper, 256 pag. Good.

von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & ZonenProfessional seller

Book number: 051229

Catalogue: Engelstalige Literatuur

BRAINE, John (1922-1986); John Minton (1917-1957)

Room at the Top [with Uncorrected Proof]

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First Edition. First Impression of Braine's first book, offered with the scarce uncorrected proof. Crown 8vo (189 x 122mm): 256pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gold, in the striking dust jacket (price-clipped) illustrated by John Minton. An excellent example (spine ends very lightly bruised), tightly bound and clean throughout (apparently unread). Proof: Crown 8vo (190 x 125mm). Original deep tan wrappers, paper title label printed in black to upper cover, with handwritten publication date (March 14th) and notice that "names of people & places will be changed after publication" in blue ink. Soft creases to wrappers, else about Fine. Burgess 99, p. 66 (of "considerable historical interest," citing its "hypergamy [or bedding a woman from a class superior to one's own"]). On publication of this, his first novel, Braine was classed among the Angry Young Men, the mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists (including John Osborne and Kingsley Amis) who rose to prominence in the 1950s. Room at the Top, "although set in 1946, seemed to speak to the mood of Britain in the later 1950s, to a society throwing off deference and austerity and reaching out to new experiences. But in Room these new experiences were not primarily sexual or quasi-mystical, in the manner of the Beat Generation or the existentialists; Braine's protagonist, Joe Lampton, was no dropout; he unashamedly wanted in, into money and material possessions and social acceptance. In key respects, he was a harbinger of the Yuppies, the brash young upwardly mobile professionals of the 1980s, but living in a society more strongly marked by class divisions and deprivation and overshadowed by a residual puritanism that frowned on both overt materialism and open sexuality." (Literary Encyclopedia) The 1959 film adaptation was undertaken by Neil Paterson, with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.

Fine Editions LtdProfessional seller

Book number: BB2736

Catalogue: MODERN FIRSTS

Braine, John

ROOM AT THE TOP.

Penguin Books, Reprinted 1966 ; Conditie: In zeer goede staat. Paperback. Pocket. Shelfwear.

Handled With CareProfessional seller

Book number: 223502401

Braine, John

Room at the Top

Houghton Mifflin Co. 1957, Ed.: first edition. hardback. near very good condition in a dust jacket with moderate wear & a closed tear- there are pen names on the free fxront end page & verso

Wonderland BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 85000

JOHN BRAINE

Room At The Top

Penguin. 1959. paperback, 7x1x5. Penguin Books 1361. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.

M. Godding Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 265367

Catalogue: Fiction

JOHN BRAINE

Room at the Top

Penguin Books. 1959. (ISBN: 0451046722) paperback, 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo). 1959 reprint. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.

M. Godding Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 276237

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0451046722

Braine, John

Room at the top

Penguin, 1959. paperback, 233 pp, . Wij berekenen binnen Nederland 3,95 euro verzendkosten ongeachte gewicht of omvang van de bestelling.

Antiquariaat Van StarkenburgProfessional seller

Book number: litp090

Catalogue: English literature

Keywords: English literature

BRAINE John

Room at the Top. [Second Impression]. SECOND IMPRESSION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK

Eyre & Spottiswoode,, [1957]. 8vo., Second Impression, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; burgundy cloth, gilt cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very faintly browned at extremities. With dustwrapper artwork by John Minton. Published in the same month as the first edition. The author's first book, a pivotal novel of the 1960s and the basis of Jack Clayton's feature film (1959) starring Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 35308

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, braine, john braine, room at the top, swinging sixties

Braine, John

Room at the Top

VGC/GC. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1958. First edition-9th impression. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, two small nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC, with Dj(very small tear on the edges of the Dj cover, some creases, nicks and foxing marks on the outer and inner edges of the Dj cover) in GC. Nice and clean pages with small foxing marks on the outer edges, a couple of small foxing marks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 256pp. Price un-clipped. Very Good/Good. ISBN: 9780413414106

Alpha 2 Omega BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 13854

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 9780413414106

John Braine

Room at the Top

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A smart first impression copy of John Braine's debut novel, set in the working class society in post-war Northern England. The first edition, first impression, in the first impression dust wrapper.In the original publisher's cloth binding. An interesting novel set in the north of England after the Second World War, following a 25 year old working class man who, at the start of the novel, begins a new job as an accountant in Warley. This was the debut novel of John Braine, and was adapted into a film in 1959. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart, with one small mark to the spine. A small amount of fading to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn with small closed tears, and with a chip to the head of the spine, and small chips to the rear joint. A few light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 872P33

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Room at the Top john braine post-war england john braine None

John Braine

Room at the Top

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this popular novel from author John Braine. Including a loosely-inserted card signed, 'With best wishes, Cheltenham 1958 - John Braine&apos. 'Room at the Top' is a novel by John Braine about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain. In a green cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the boards. Dustwrapper is quite smart, though with some slight chipping, and handling marks to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, though with some scattered instances of foxing. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Good.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: MOD9-I-20

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: john braine cheltenham room at the top cheltenham None